Re: MonkeyShell: using XML-RPC for access to a remote shell

From: Barry Dorrans (barryd_at_IDUNNO.ORG)
Date: 10/11/04

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    Date:         Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:34:59 +0100
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    So lets think about this. You write a web service to specifically allow
    access to the shell.

    > Of course to really understand the security risks posed by Web
    > services,
    > you need to understand the basics of Web services. Enter an application
    > I wrote called "Monkey Shell."

    Surely this is proving the security risks of running any type of unknown
    software rather than being limited to showing a problem with web services.
    If you bound telnet to port 80 would that should a problem with HTTP? No of
    course not.

    Now I'll grant you that if you're protocol sniffing on well known ports a
    rebinding of telnet would get caught, but heck you could write a remote
    shell which used straightforward HTTP posts if necessary, it doesn't take
    web services to do that.

    Or am I missing something obvious here? 

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